From Linux Mint's About page: "Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution." To reach this goal, lead developer and founder Clement Lefebvre used (surprisingly) Ubuntu as the base, and added multimedia codecs to the distribution, by default. Later on, Mint deviated more from Ubuntu by adding its own artwork, web-based package front-end, and configuration tools (MintTools) to the mix. I installed the latest stable release, Daryna (4.0), released on 15 October of last year, to see what's what.
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Member since:2008-04-07
To my knowledge, the actual "guts" are still Ubuntu, which is why the Mint release cycle is so influenced by the Ubuntu release schedule.
Yes, Mint makes a lot of it own tools that affect how the system can be used (as with MintUpload) and how it runs itself (as with MintUpdate), but it's still very much Ubuntu-based.
Member since:2005-11-14
Member since:2005-07-24
What's a fork? Is Andrew Morton's kernel tree a fork of the Linux kernel? How about Ingo's? Is Xubuntu a fork of Ubuntu? How about CentOS and RHEL? CentOS has a different theme. All the trademarked material has been replaced. And it includes some value added features ala centosplus. Fork? Or not?
Keep in mind that cmost has an ongoing anti-buntu agenda (as anyone can verify with a glance at his posting history), and I think you can see whence this "confusion" arose.
Edited 2008-04-07 15:20 UTC
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2006-07-16
As long as you're aware that Linux Mint is NOT Ubuntu. Linux Mint forked from Ubuntu somewhere around Ubuntu 6.10 and diverges ever more with each successive release. While it may be compatible with Gutsy's repositories, the two are not interchangeable. Daryna is a bird of a different feather.